Software-as-a-Service fleet management specialist Tranzaura says it is is setting high standards for defect reporting within the UK bus industry with its electronic app. As of September 2024, the company says that over 11,000 buses in England, around 36% of the total number, now use the Tranzaura app daily, replacing traditional paper methods for tracking unplanned maintenance and defect reporting tasks. Bus drivers check an average of 130,000 items daily, amounting to almost 4 million items each month, the company says.
Tranzaura reports that around 65% of London’s red buses use its system, including GoAhead London, Metroline, and RATP Dev Transit London, whilst other provincial operators include GoAhead, Transdev Blazefield, Nottingham City Transport and Newport Bus.
Established in 2012, Tranzaura specialises in optimising compliance, safety, and operational efficiency in the bus industry, supporting operations by digitising and streamlining daily vehicle inspection checks and maintenance processes, improving reliability, safety, and sustainability, eliminating paper use in daily pre-service checks and reporting defects throughout the working day, and enhancing control over unplanned maintenance, reducing defect reporting times and engaging end-users more effectively.
Operations Director at Transdev Blazefield Vitto Pizzuti commented: “The Tranzaura app is being used on over 500 Transdev buses across Yorkshire and Lancashire with data being gathered about real-time compliance and unplanned maintenance from over 1,000 drivers every single day. Transdev has wholeheartedly embraced the technology and actively involved both drivers and engineers from day one, with 90% of drivers rating it as positive. We have also embarked on our next step of digital transformation with Tranzaura around driver incident reporting and are also helping them to pioneer language translations as the next big step in driver management.”
Tranzaura CEO Shane Mann added: “We are proud that Tranzaura is already used on around 11,000 buses in England and that we can support these operators to not only excel in safety, reliability and efficiency but to also deliver more value to customers. Behind the scenes, we are also working on further innovative solutions to support the bus industry, optmise driver management and sustainability impact which include language translations, digital incident reporting and driver duty cards, but our lips are sealed until the Euro Bus Expo in November.”
